If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Thomas Fuller
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Thomas Fuller
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Thomas Fuller
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller
He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
Thomas Fuller
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Thomas Fuller
All doors open to courtesy.
Thomas Fuller
All doors open to courtesy.
Thomas Fuller
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Thomas Fuller
Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fuller
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
Thomas Fuller
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Thomas Fuller
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
Thomas Fuller
Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Thomas Fuller
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!
Thomas Fuller
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Thomas Fuller
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Thomas Fuller
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Thomas Fuller
With foxes we must play the fox.
Thomas Fuller
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Thomas Fuller
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Thomas Fuller
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Thomas Fuller
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.
Thomas Fuller
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Thomas Fuller
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller
‘Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Thomas Fuller
The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.
Thomas Fuller
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Thomas Fuller
